The Children's Era Themes
Hypocrisy
Don't front around Margaret Sanger. She addresses two levels of hypocrisy in "The Children's Era." First, she calls out her listeners (and on another level, society as a whole) for acting like they...
Women and Femininity
This theme is kind of unavoidable when you're talking about childbearing, right? The element of womanhood at issue in "The Children's Era" is motherhood. Over and over, Sanger emphasizes that there...
Children and Childhood
Woohoo! We made it to the fun theme! Or, wait...sorry. For a second we thought this might be all about Saturday morning cartoons and sledding and waiting up for Santa, but...it's not. Instead, we'r...
Poverty
Yeah, it's a real downer of a theme. It brings to mind the Great Depression and The Grapes of Wrath, neither of which arrives all that far after 1925.Poverty was nothing new in 1925 and it's nothin...